ONE Mexican whom Donald Trump is unlikely to deport is Joaquín Guzmán, better known as El Chapo (Shorty). The Mexican government put Mr Guzmán, the chief of the Sinaloa drug-trafficking gang, on an aeroplane to New York on January 19th, the last full day of Barack Obama’s presidency. He will stand trial on charges ranging from money-laundering to murder, to which he has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he will probably spend the rest of his life in an American jail.
Mr Guzmán’s extradition is an opening gambit in Mexico’s diplomacy with Mr Trump, the most anti-Mexican president since James Polk, who waged the Mexican-American war in the mid-19th century. Mr Obama gets the credit because he was still president when the extradition happened. But the dispatch of Mr Guzmán to the United States is also a signal that Mexico is prepared to co-operate with the Trump administration, and to retaliate if ill-treated.
Mr Trump can hurt Mexico by ripping up the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada or through a renegotiation that restricts trade. On January 25th he signed an executive order to start building a...Continue reading
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